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Saturday, February 27, 2016

No Friend of Mine!

The willfully ignorant and the Ideologues are not friends of ours!

The comment below was left on my
Facebook page by a certain Steven C. Hunt. Below that comment is my own
response:

“Whatever your past conflicts
with the Syrian government, if you align with sectarian forces that have
hijacked the 2011 protests, then you have no credibility as a secular voice or
persona. The role played by cynical external, imperialist forces in this mayhem
is well documented. Thankfully, they are losing. I am supporting the Syrian
people, and the legitimate government in this situation. The US, Saudis,
Qataris, and Turks are not friends of the Syrian people.”

My response:

“Long before the Revolution, sectarian
forces have hijacked the government in Syria. It's the Assad regime's sectarian
tendencies over the last 40 years that paved the way to this catastrophe. You
also ignore the role of Russian and Iranian imperialism in this matter.

I am not interested in appearing
credible to ideologues and people who are so deeply misinformed about the
situation in Syria, and so unwilling to examine all relevant facts, yet quite
willing to stand by the Assad regime calling it legitimate, as though we ever
had free elections, and as though the Assad regime, by UN reckoning, is not the
entity responsible for over 90% of all the dead, tortured, cleansed and raped,
and most of the damage to the country's infrastructure.

True, judging by their actions, neither
Obama’s US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey nor Qatar are friends of the Syrian people.
But neither are the Russians, the Iranians, the Assad regime itself, or members
of Hezbollah and the Shia/Alawite-manned or led militias fighting for it.

Moreover, and quite respectfully,
sir, neither are you, since you remain an avowed ally of their oppressor."

Go ahead, patronize me!

About Ammar

Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian-American author and pro-democracy activist based in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the founder of the Tharwa Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to democracy promotion. His personal website and entries from his older blogs can be accessed here.

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The Delirica is a companion blog to the Daily Digest of Global Delirium meant to highlight certain DDGD items by publishing them as separate posts. Also, the Delirica republishes articles by Ammar that appeared on other sites since 2016. Older articles can be found on Ammar's internet archive: Ammar.World